Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 58

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DS ID:

DS4420

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 58

Title:

Carta executoria, in favor of Luís and Andrés Ordóñez

Author:

Spain. Sovereign (1556-1598 : Philip II)

Spain WIKIDATA

Place:

Valladolid, Spain

Valladolid TGN

Language:

Castilian, Spanish

Spanish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 40; 310 x 230 mm bound to 332 x 235 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Ordoñez, Luis

Luis Ordoñez WIKIDATA

Ordoñez, Andrés

Andrés Ordoñez WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Original sixteenth-century Spanish limp vellum with remains of leather ties; sewn with a multicolored cord
Layout: One column of thirty-six lines; frame-ruled in ink with quadruple vertical and upper bounding lines; written area: 210 x 120 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda (Spanish), with notarial inscriptions
Decoration: One full-page miniature and border with owner portraits and coat of arms (fol. 1v); two quarter-page miniatures, of Saint James the Greater (fol. 2r) and Philip II (fol. 37r), with borders; illuminated words at start of text divisions; flourished initials
Provenance: Luís and Andrés Ordóñez of Móstoles, Spain; Sotheby's, no. 95 or 120 (dated as 1607); Sale, American Art Association, no. 250; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Sixteenth century

Law

Spanish (culture or style)

Spain

illuminations (paintings)

Gothic (Medieval)

binding (textile material)

Heraldry

inhabited initials

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_058.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_058/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia